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Prunty Name Meaning and History

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Proinntigh ‘descendant of Proinnteach’, a personal name, originally a byname denoting a generous person, literally ‘banqueting hall’, from proinn ‘banquet’ (from Latin prandium ‘meal’) + teach ‘house’, ‘hall’.

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Prunty
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Proinntigh ‘descendant of Proinnteach’, a personal name, originally a byname denoting a generous person, literally ‘banqueting hall’, from proinn ‘banquet’ (from Latin prandium ‘meal’) + teach ‘house’, ‘hall’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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